TeraTech, with our milieu of expert programmers and developers, is able to solve complex problems with grace and speed. We are on the forefront of ColdFusion development, constantly contributing to the CF community with training, tips and tricks, as well as conferences. Since the 1989 inception, we have made a name for ourselves as the […]
TeraTech ColdFusion Blog
Clustering and fail over for CF and SQL Server
We were recently working on a site that was growing rapiding in traffic. How should it be clustered and why? In putting together this recommendation we took into account the anticipated increase in traffic volumes and also are striving to avoid too much distribution of assets across a network. By avoiding the use of Network […]
Crowd Chess
Is one single person smarter than an enormous group of people? Is a crowd better at making decisions than one trained expert? Crowdchess.com is taking this idea and putting it to the ultimate test, a mass exhibition of the ultimate strategy game where it is literally the world versus chess Grand Master Gawain Jones, one […]
Where Did TeraTech Come From?
I sat down with TeraTech President and Co-Founder, Michaela Light, to truly understand the vision behind TeraTech. From its 1989 inception TeraTech (partially a play on “Microsoft”, micro = one millionth, terra = one trillion) has proved itself as experts in ColdFusion and gurus at solving complex web based problems. In 1989, Light, originally from […]
TeraTech Training Class Schedule
TeraTech offers training classes for ColdFusion and Fusebox for every skill level. This months highlighted class is ACT 101 – ActionScript 3 for Flex Developers Taught by Theo Rushin, Jr., this course introduces the Flex developer to the Actionscript 3.0 programming language. The course starts by covering basic syntax and working with variables; moves through […]
CFUnited 2008 Update
TeraTech is in total conference mode. Everyday we are getting closer to this years CFUnited (June 18th – 21st) and everyone in the office is getting more and more excited. There’s still a bunch to get done, and everyone is excited about the new location in DC This year will be the best year ever […]
New TeraTech Website Coming in June
We are renovating our website! By June, we will have a newly designed website with all new features including ways to contact us direcly and photos of all our staff. We have been working on how to better serve our clients, and it was time our website got a tune up. Watch our for our […]
When should you use a SAN?
I was talking with TeraTech’s server tuning consultant Mike Brunt about servers and SANs (Storage Area Networks). When should you use a SAN? 1/ As a SAN systems are typically simply a large number of hard-drives, optical drives etc in an enclosure, it is very easy to add capacity quickly as needed as opposed to […]
May’s MDCFUG Lunch
Last months ColdFusion Lunch was literally twice as successful as the previous one, with twice the amount of ColdFusion users which means twice the amount of contacts and twice the amount of fun. In fact, because it was pouring rain outside, those there didn’t want to leave, so it was almost twice as long! In […]
ColdFusion stability, metrics, logs and garbage collection
I was talking with TeraTech’s server tuning consultant Mike Brunt about ColdFusion tuning and clustering which we did for a client to improve stability and performance. I thought others might be interested in what we did with server metrics, threads, logs and garbage collection in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). We edited two files, as […]
